christmas

I am currently very sleepy but I'm going to have to at least keep my eyes open till late tonight. Going to nai2 and ye2's house, which would also equal Jensen, jerome and their parents house, for the annual Christmas related dinner. This year, it's earlier than usual cus their whole household will be going to Hokaido for a rather late holiday, so they won't be around during christmas. I think I have been in a rather early christmas mood this year. First, this dinner. Then, the church christmas programme was pushed back earlier, which resulted in receiving christmas cards/presents earlier. Weird. So now, just finished violin practice. Everyone is busy on the com except mom who's busy attacking the turkey.

Yesterday was a record breaking day. Woke up early to go to church for meeting. Mom and dad sent jean and I off to church (or else we'd end up having a morning jog) efore going for their usual jog. We had meeting from 9-4.25. Nearly 7.5 hours, including lunch time. I can't reveal much about the people in the comm (although it is alr quite obvious) or the positions yet. Planned out the whole of next year and got quite a lot of stuff done. There was a lot of funny incidents, eg. xiao jun's bread talk joke (refer to jean's blog). The power of hunger. When we finally ended, Jean and I walked/ran all the way home. The other chimes ppl in the comm didn't need to rush cus they lived further away and were more prepared (brought clothes etc). We took a shower and then thankfully, went to church by car.

We rehearsed a bit first with the choir, then chimes. Jean and I were busy bullying/teasing/assisting Jerome. He was here earlier cus he followed his dad. Louise (another girl jerome's age, whom everyone knows he likes, oh, they're 4 yrs old) had just arrived too. Jean asked him whether he wanted to go play with her instead of getting tortured by us. He just smiled and didn't want to budge (highly rare). Then she dragged him all the way to Louise and tried to start their conversation. In the end both of them seemed so shy like they never spent almost all their Sundays playing with each other. It was very funny watching them. For photos, again, refer to Jean-the-gene.

Then, the actualy thing started. I think the chimes part went pretty smoothly. As far as I know every note I played was correct and we were quite together. Chimes was in charge of the prelude (we played Trepak and Jingle Bell). Before that, we were all chionging make up upstairs (it's always the most dreadful part of this christmas programme, but we've been surviving with it for the past 14+ years i think) and by then it was already about 7.29pm before everyone was ready backstage. Then we quickly rushed a short and rather hilarious prayer before stampeding onto the stage. The little kids were amazing. Halfway throughout 2 of their items, the music (they were using a CD) suddenly died (I dunno why, must ask dad wat he was doing to the sound system up there) and they ended up singing accapella. But wats amazing is that they didn't get stunned and panic up there. They just went "business as usual" and continued watever they were doing. The rest of us watching them were panicing/praying for them.

Today, was and am dead tired. Stayed up till 2am this morning. Jean and I were working on a top secret project. And yes, according to her, thankfully it didn't have so many sides. Today was my class's student-teacher bonding day. My class went to macs and were treated. Good thing it was shi sheng ri today or I am certain I might have just fallen asleep during class.

Some things mom can consider for her Sunday school system:
1. Holiday the next day if Sat was the christmas thingy
2. shi sheng ri (teacher-students day for bonding) more often

Gtg now. I'll decide if I will continue later but I probably wouldnt be alive enough to.